Month: May 2016

Chinese Philosophy’s Hybrid Identity

ANU China Seminar Series John Makeham, La Trobe University Seminar Room A, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU, Canberra Thursday, 2 June, 2016, 4:00pm to 5:30pm This paper is structured as an exercise in conceptual archaeology. The…

Population Ageing and the Chinese Economy

ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, UNSW 21-22 July 2016 The Annual Workshop on Population Ageing and the Chinese Economy is hosted by CEPAR and the Australia-China Population Ageing Research Hub, in collaboration with the APRU Population Ageing…

63rd Sydney Film Festival

Films from China or about the Chinese Diaspora at the 63rd Sydney Film Festival, 8-19 June 2016 LIFE AFTER LIFE (Australian Premiere) Winner of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Firebird Award, Zhang Hanyi’s auspicious debut feature is a ghost…

Late 1950s Socialist Cinematic Satires

Chinese Studies Seminar Series, UNSW The Animal and the Animalistic in China’s Late 1950s Socialist Cinematic Satires Associate Professor Wang Yiman, University of California, Santa Cruz 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Thursday 9 June 2016 (3:30pm – 4:00pm Reception and Short Screening)…

Healing Rituals in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

The Inaugural Master Sheng Yen Lecture in Chinese Buddhism, hosted by the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney Professor Stephen F Teiser DT Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University 6.00pm to 7.30pm,…

Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art

Australian National University, Canberra, 26-28 August 2016 This conference addresses historical and contemporary manifestations of spatio-temporality in Asian art. The conference results from an understanding of sustained trajectories of spatio-temporal practices in various art traditions in the Asian region. In…

Half the Sky

In Conversation – Sydney Writers Festival Special Event on Contemporary women artists in China Luise Guest in conversation with Dr Li Zhe 2pm – 3:30 pm Saturday 21 May 2016 Vermillion Art, 5/16 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney (Opposite to…

Class and Jia Baoyu’s Same-Sex Attractions

2016 Chinese Studies Department Seminar Series, University of Sydney Class and Jia Baoyu’s Same-Sex Attractions Professor Louie Kam 12pm – 1:30 pm, Friday 27 May 2016 SLC Common Room 536, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, University of Sydney In this paper,…

A Garden for Empire and Nation

China Studies Centre and The Power Institute, University of Sydney A Garden for Empire and Nation: History and Memory at the Qing Imperial Mountain Estate Dr Stephen Whiteman 6.00pm – 7.30pm, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 Law School LT106,  Law School…